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Polytope |
The
motel room is a space of tourism, fantasy, criminality and transience,
allowing temporary occupation that since its development in the 1950s
has increasingly occupied the landscape with its varying architectures.
The Motel Polytope project is based on a series of interventions staged
in Hollywood motels during the course of a week’s tourism. The interventions
take the form of paint applications performed directly onto the rooms
during a night’s occupation. The work draws upon the composer and
architect Iannis Xenakis, who developed a highly unique approach to music
composition, often uniting mathematics with musical ideas. Considering
the motel room, the project playfully inserts additional geometries to
the existing spaces, appropriating their often-uniform look for distributing
more personalized modifications. Exhibited
at Gallery 727, Los Angeles, as
part of Surface Tension_Los Angeles |
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Vista
Motel |
green dots, across furniture and corners |
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Saharan
Motor Hotel |
yellow highlight across wall and ceiling |
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Ramada
Marina del Rey |
white and blue diagonals, softly finding a new movement |
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Hollywood
Guest Inn |
orange diagonals, improvised |
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Hollywood
Inn Express North |
vertical lines each parallel to a corner – to make a second shadow |
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Hollywood
7 Star Motel |
blue and pink dots, as an overlay onto the wallpaper of roses |
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Hollywood
Downtowner Inn |
wrapping the room with grey dots, like a decorative crown |
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Installation at gallery 727: a series of models, each depicting one of the motel rooms and the interventions performed. Placed on painted tables with text and images. |
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